Charlie Worsham's latest album 'Beginning of Things' (Warner Music Nashville) will be released on limited edition, 12" clear vinyl and made available to fans in the UK/Ireland on his forthcoming tour dates with Lucie Silvas, starting 13th November 2017 in London. In his own words: "The songs on 'Beginning of Things' found their first audience here in the United Kingdom and Europe, and this is a record that was made to be played on vinyl, so I couldn’t be more excited to bring these limited edition LPs with me on tour. Speaking of on tour, I am beside myself to join up with one of my all-time-favourite voices (and human beings), Lucie Silvas.
These shows are gonna be crazy - my first across the pond with a backing band!" The full tour dates are:
Lucie Silvas & Charlie Worsham
Mon 13 November 2017
- Islington Assembly Hall, London (Upper Street,
Islington, N1 2UD)
Weds 15 November 2017 - O2
Academy, Birmingham (78 Digbeth High Street, Digbeth, B5 6DY)
Thurs 16 November 2017 - Ruby
Lounge, Manchester (28-34 High Street, M4
1QB)
Fri 17 November 2017 - King
Tuts, Glasgow (272a ST Vincent Street, G2 5RL)
Sun 19 November 2017 –
Limelight, Belfast (17, Ormeau Avenue, BT2 8HD)
Mon 20 November 2017 - The
Academy, Dublin (57 Middle Abbey
Street, Dublin,1, IE)
In addition to these shows, Charlie will be playing a couple of
intimate in-store acoustic performances in London and Oxford:
9th November - Truck Music Store, Oxford, 6pm
ABOUT CHARLIE WORSHAM:
Come to the crossroads, and you can set your soul up for
sale. It’s been done before, most famously in Charlie Worsham’s home state
of Mississippi, by blues hero Robert Johnson. It’s done most every day in
Nashville, the music town that has nurtured, bruised, sustained and menaced
Worsham’s every dream. But soul-selling is a tricky deal, and, anyway, it’s a
buyer’s market. And so when Worsham came to his crossroads—an intersection
exacerbated by a groaning confusion between the fitting in and the setting apart—he
took a different approach. He rose on blue-black winter mornings and opened a
Moleskine notebook onto which he had written “Tell the Truth.” Then he sat
there in the dawn and scrawled his conscience. Those morning pages filled, one
every morning, and the filling of a page was the easy emptying of a mind that
had remained awake and weighted through a young man’s fitful slumber.
A record deal and a radio fate… ill-fitting opening gigs, and
glorious headlining engagements seen and heard by too few… the struggle to fit
a Berklee School of Music-educated array of uncategorizable virtuosity into
contemporary trends and formats… all of that felt different in the morning,
there at the crossroads, where there was no need to sell a soul and every need
to nourish one. He wasn’t writing songs—if writing songs were as easy as
telling the truth, songwriters would spend each day on a witness stand—he was
unlocking, unbending. He was remembering himself. All that done, he was free to
kick ass. He took the Moleskine to town, gathered with comrades who had worked
with him on debut album Rubber Band, and read a few revelations. Having figured
out what he had to say, all that was left was to decide how to say it, and how
to reveal it. He turned to a handful of old friends and one new one: Frank
Liddell had produced winning albums for Miranda Lambert, Lee Ann
Womack and others. Liddell offered advice that Worsham took as directive:
To paraphrase, originality is competition’s Kryptonite, and the setting apart
transcends the fitting in. With co-producer Eric Masse and a lean but
spectacular core band, Worsham and Liddell entered the studio and
created 'Beginning of Things', a landmark album that uncovers Worsham as
the rarest of talents, as Mississippi’s first great new-century musical son,
and as a survivor of the highest order.
'Beginning of Things' lives on contemporary country music’s cutting edge, with echoes from the past that thunder and whirl their way into an electric Southern symphony of guitars, strings, horns, twang, funk, rhythm, smile and snarl. There are moments of nostalgia, but nothing throwback. It’s both a declaration of independence and a celebration of musical community, and it could only have been made by someone with Worsham’s depth and breadth of experience, understanding, and musicality. “This one’s me,” he says. “I’ve been around long enough now to get why you’re supposed to do what you do, and not do what someone else does.” Worsham's 2013 debut RUBBERBAND (No.12 Country (#64 BB200) selling some 6,000 units) was a display of potent promise, but Worsham’s sophomore work is his emergence. It is promise realized, and perspective attained. “Life is a record,” he sings. “Better cut your groove.” And if that record gets dinged in the shuffling, “Part of the charm is the crackle, the pop and the hiss.”
BEGINNING OF THINGS is out now. (21 April 2017; Warner
Music Nashville; Amazon UK - UK iTunes – Amazon.com)
Charlie Worsham is on tour in Europe with Lucie Silvas in November
2017.
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